Senior Research Advisor
National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Eleanor Lyon (Ph.D), retired from the University of Connecticut, School of Social Work in 2011, where she served as Director of the Institute for Violence Prevention and Reduction and taught courses on violence against women and research methods. During a career of over 45 years, she has directed a battered women’s shelter; conducted research and evaluation at the local, state, and national levels; and worked on a wide range of projects in collaboration with advocates working with victims/survivors of domestic and family violence and sexual assault and abuse.
Throughout much of the past 45 years, Dr. Lyon has also served as an active consultant to a range of national organizations, including the Centers for Disease Control;the Family Violence Services Administration, where she was one of two researchers who helped to develop, pilot, and provide training to state administrators and programs across the country on the outcome measures used for reports to Congress and the Office on Management and Budget; and the Futures Without Violence technical assistance coordination of a national project on children exposed to domestic violence..
She is currently the senior research advisor to the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma and Mental Health, and is actively working on a variety of projects related to these issues in states across the country, including developing and testing trauma-informed outcome measures and measures of coercion. Among numerous publications she and Jill Davies co-authored Domestic Violence Advocacy: Complex Lives, Difficult Choices in 2014.
Navigating Substance Use Coercion: Practical Tools for Screening and Intervention
Friday, April 25, 2025
1:15 PM – 2:30 PM
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
